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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Kind of on track',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You have an interesting take on pragmatism.
			Pragmatism focusses on what needs to get done, so like you said, it can help bridge the divide between different viewpoints.
			Even if people have differing views and differing goals, pragmatism can be used to attempt to meet all the goals of the participants, or even find viable alternative goals that meet the needs of the participants.
		</p>
		<p>
			I don&apos;t think I agree with your take on positivism.
			While your version seems like a useful tool, it&apos;s drastically different than what the reading material for the week described positivism as being.
			The reading material described positivism as an effort to meet everyone&apos;s needs, somewhat akin to your take on pragmatism.
		</p>
		<p>
			Your description of realism sounds like science.
			We can never really know for sure the ultimate truth, but we can create closer and closer approximations of it.
			By getting creating better and better models in incremental degrees, we can better predict and control outcomes.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		I got one of the learning journal assignments done for the week.
		That wasn&apos;t the assignment I should have been focussing on; the other written assignment is due a little sooner.
		Still, I find it very difficult to keep focus at this toxic school, so getting any sort of coursework done seems like a win to me.
		If I can get the next assignment done tomorrow, I can take the next day off for my Tuesday errands, then have a full day off from work to take on the final assignment for the week.
		Even if I don&apos;t finish tomorrow, that still leaves me the full day off to finish both assignments.
		I&apos;m ... reasonably ahead.
	</p>
</section>
END
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